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Introducing the Innovation Mentors

The MIT innovation ecosystem spans a wide range of departments, centers, programs, and student ... groups that are spread across campus and beyond. With over 85 resources available to the MIT community, ... help student innovators, entrepreneurs, and makers at MIT match their interests and needs with the ...

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International development through dialogue, design, and dissemination

in mechanical engineering and co-director of MIT's D-Lab, which she founded, says the question ... learned from the fall semester to address the needs of the community. In the spring, back at MIT, they ... live in rugged terrain. When he returned to MIT, he collaborated with teammates to design and build the ...

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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... in a paper published in Cell Patterns in November, showing that the system could recapitulate the ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ...

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In it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students

research, the pressure to reach academic milestones, and the management of life outside MIT can tax even the ... Lienhard2 1024.jpg Professor John Lienhard of the Department of Mechanical Engineering makes the members of ... Mechanical Engineering makes the members of his lab feel secure in their positions — and they are happier for ...

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Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements

challenge in robotics and virtual reality. Now, MIT engineers have designed an ultrasound wristband that ... of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “It could also provide huge amounts of training data for dexterous ... Chandrakasan, MIT provost and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Other ...

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MIT Participates in the White House's National Week of Making

campus in a diversity of ways,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and MIT ... Members of the MIT community host maker events on campus and give talks about making in ... Washington. MIT joined maker communities across the country to inspire Americans of all backgrounds to create, ...

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PhD Candidate Albert Wang (SB ’10, SM ’12)

| Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Education Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal Albert Wang is ... have to make all the time in emergency situations. The system Wang and the rest of the team has ... – eventually hope to evolve their robotic system to the point where the robot and the operator are both ...

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A Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes

MIT’s Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc: punching through ... typically very slow, so a robot has difficulty reacting in time,” says Ramos, of MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering. “Instead, we’d like to use the human’s natural reflexes and coordination. An example ...

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After MIT, new officers will serve their country

A few hours after they received their MIT diplomas on the Institute’s famed Killian Court, 12 ... military. “You embody the best of MIT,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif told the new crop of surface warfare ... officers, pilots, flight officers, reactor and developmental engineers, ordnance officers, aircraft ...

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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication

twist, MIT researchers have discovered that two other inactive ingredients may actually boost medication ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Machine ... pharmaceutical companies to rule out drug-on-drug interactions. They fed the system the chemical structures of ...

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